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1 month ago | 
rpgfan.com | Claton Stevenson |Gio Castillo |Hilary Andreff |Jimmy Turner
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2 months ago | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Gio Castillo |Patrick Gann
It’s time for more of 2024’s best RPG music! In the last episode, we featured nine excellent songs from last year, and today we return with Part II, bringing nine more tracks! Look for some Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Flowstone Saga, a double dose of Stellar Blade, and more! Scarlet Moon‘s Jayson Napolitano joins us to share some of his picks as well, so don’t miss out.
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2 months ago | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Michael Sollosi |Gio Castillo
It’s time for Music of the Year! 2024 was absolutely stacked with game releases. Some even felt it was one of the all-time best years in gaming. And the side effect of a year filled with excellent games means a year of excellent soundtracks. For this annual special, we let each panelist bring on three songs. Even so, how did we pick just nine today? It wasn’t easy.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Jonathan Logan
Between our recent milestone of 150 episodes and the start of a new year, we will have some fun changes coming to Rhythm Encounter, starting with this episode. New games and music release all the time that don’t always fit with our episode themes. Starting today, we will release a “new music” episode every few months to spotlight the latest in RPG music. These episodes will typically be a shorter listen with a smaller panel, featuring 6–8 songs each.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Audra Bowling |Patrick Gann
We are at the beginning of “spooky season,” and while this isn’t (yet) our Halloween episode, October is a fine time to shine a spotlight on composer Michiru Yamane, known in our parts for her excellent work on the Castlevania and Suikoden series. That means some games you may expect, but definitely some you wouldn’t, from this talented composer. So dim the lights, summon your favorite fairy companion, and get ready.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi |Hilary Andreff |Jonathan Logan
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , and on September 26, 2024What possible harm could an insane, mutant tentacle do? Day of the Tentacle was a tentpole release in LucasArts’s excellent run of classic adventure games from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, and its very specific dialog, puzzle logic, and sense of humor made it a cult classic.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Hilary Andreff
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Jonathan Logan |Hilary Andreff
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Random Encounterby and on September 16, 2024On this episode of Random Encounter, Jono and Hilary geek out over a fantastic book focusing on the localization of beloved indie RPG, Undertale. Video game localizations have come a long way since the days of spoony bards. When we usually think about game localization, we think Japanese to English. But what about the other way around?
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Gio Castillo |Wes Iliff
With fall (or autumn, if you prefer) around the corner for many of us, it feels like a good time for relaxing music. While we did a pair of episodes focused on relaxing RPG music about four years ago (see Episode 54 and Episode 55), this time, RPGFan’s biggest lo-fi fans got together to listen and chat about lo-fi RPG music. Sometimes these are straight from games, but often they come from the incredible community of independent musicians and arrangers.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Jonathan Logan |Michael Sollosi |Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Random Encounterby , , and on July 8, 2024On this episode of Random Encounter, we’re celebrating our 300th episode with a special draft!Four years is a long time in the video game industry, so we’re making predictions about what things will be like when we record our 400th episode in April 2028. Jono has gathered all the hosts from the RPGFan podcasts to make their picks.
